Psychotherapy Library

• Therapy for PTSD: What You Should Know
  As you can see from this issue's lead article, SSRIs help alleviate core PTSD symptoms, but hardly roar by the placebo ...
• What’s New in Eating Disorders?
  While few psychiatrists specialize in eating disorders, most of us see patients with anorexia or bulimia from time to time. It’s hard to ...
• Through the Eyes of Emerging, Young Adults & Teens
  Working with teenagers and young adults in therapy is exhilarating, frustrating, exciting and daunting. They don’t always ...
• When Psychotherapists Digitally Eavesdrop on Twitter, Google
  Mental health professionals have worried for years about their clients digging for personal information about them on the Internet. But ...
• Burnout in Mental Health Professionals
  As helping professionals, we are trusted with some of our clients’ deepest, darkest secrets. Each day, we are subjected to the heart-wrenching ...
• Why and How to Be a Therapist for the Intellectually Disabled
  For many, many years, people believed that people with intellectual disability (ID) could not have mental ...
• I Had a Normal Childhood
  In my work as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, it is not unusual for a patient to tell me that he or she had a normal childhood. This always alarms me. Childhood has so many conflicts and worries, so many triumphs and disappointments—how can one reduce it to a notion of normality?
• Treating Adolescent Depression With Psychotherapy: The Three T’s
  Adolescence is a time of increased vulnerability for depression, with risk factors driven by biological, cognitive, and social-environmental changes in development. More than half of all adolescents report experiencing depressed mood, and 8% to 10% experience clinically diagnosable symptoms.1 Depression in the young negatively affects all areas of development, including academic, cognitive, social, and family functioning, and if untreated, it can have significant lasting consequences.
• Treating Adolescent Depression With Psychotherapy
  Adolescence is a time of increased vulnerability for depression, with risk factors driven by biological, cognitive, and social-environmental changes in development.
• New Psychotherapy Billing Codes in 2013
  Billing codes, or CPT codes, are used by mental health providers to submit claims to insurance companies for reimbursement. As of January 1st, 2013 there are several new billing codes that you need to ...